Van Grants

HISTORY

Way back when, in the world of Auldrant, it was the Dawn Age when Yulia Jue, the first Scorer, lived. Think of the Score as the future predicted to perfection and written for people to read and live by; not laws or principals, but exact depiction of the coming events in the world. The Score was written on seven fonstones, each the size of a mountain by Yulia before she passed away.

In the Dawn Age, the land was complete and entirely united. Between the land and the core of the planet was a hardened substance called miasma; a sort of liquefied mud that gave off poisonous gasses. The result of those gasses were sickness and after long periods of exposure; death. At this point in the world, though, these gasses were not being given off and everyone lived in peace.

It is said around this time, something called ‘Fonic Artes’, a special type of magic using fonons, were discovered and began to form. Fonons are masses of energy that represent elements. There are seven all together; earth, wind, fire, ground, light, shadow, and sound. Sound being used by the rarest of people. From these fonons something called the ‘Planet Storm’ came into being; a collection of these fonons that surrounded the planet.

Because of the Planet Storm, the core of Auldrant began to vibrate, causing the hardened miasma to liquefy and give off the poisonous gasses, the gas remained named miasma, while the liquefied remainder became known as the Qliphoth. To save the world and the populace from sure-fire death, Yulia (who was one of the few able to manipulate the seventh fonon; Sound) created a series of seals and Fonic Artes to raise all the cities (save one) off the miasma and suspend the crust in mid-air. The land was held there by a series of trees named ‘Sephiroth Tree’s’, and those were steadied using Passage Rings. They became known as the Outer Lands.

The remaining city left behind by Yulia was, in fact, Yulia City. It came to survive amiss the miasma and Qliphoth and become home to ‘Watchers’. Those that observed the people on the Outer Lands as well as the Score to make sure things were followed accordingly. Some time after the Outer Lands were raised was then the Score was created for the world, and also at this time did they fall down in the Auldrant. The desire to know the future was great, and the people across the world began to fight over the fonstones that had the score written on them.

From that fact, the land became divided, and the Order of Lorelei created. Two ruling powers; the Kingdom of Kimlasca-Lanvaldear, currently ruled by King Ingobert the sixth, and the Malkuth Empire, now headed by Emperor Peony the ninth. The Order of Lorelei was a group of religious heads including the Fon Master who would read the score.

The game starts in 2018, and many years prior to that an awful battle broke out; the War of Hod. This would be where Van comes in. He lived in Hod with his mother, sister (Tear), and father.

So, in Hod, he was a servant to Guy and his family the House of Gardios. Living on the island with him, the two were childhood friends. So close, in fact, that when Vandesdelca discovered the seventh fonstone of the Score, he showed it to Gailardia. It was around that time that the war began and everything began to change. Fonon research began that included Colonel Jade and replications began.

During said war, Van was taken in to said research and being a seventh fonon user, was made to use hyper resonance and destroyed Hod as well as almost everyone on it. This left him as one of the two people left in his family on the land; himself, and his sister Tear.

As time passed, he joined the army of Kimlasca-Lanvaldear, and eventually moved up into the ranks in the Order of Lorelei. Van became the Commandant in the Order, heading up above the Six God Generals; Asch, Legretta, Arietta, Dist, Sync, and Largo.

But let's backtrack a little.

While moving up in said army, Van somehow got in with Duke fon Fabre, his wife, and their son Luke. He became a mentor to the boy, and pretended to cared about him as though he were family. When Luke turned ten, Van kidnapped him and took him to a fontech research lab, and replicated him. The original Luke adapted the name 'Asch', while the replica took his place at the fon Fabre residence as a stand-in while Van moved to further the world towards his own goals.

As time passed, he continued visiting the manor to mold and manipulate the replication so that he gained his trust. When the time came, Van pulled whatever moves he could to get Luke to do what he wanted. It worked, and Luke used hyper resonance to destroy a city called Akzeriuth and kill the entire population. This had all been part of a plan to destroy the world, because he had learned Hod's destruction was written in the Score, and he wanted to do all he could to get revenge.

Breaking the Passage Rings and causing the Sephiroth Trees to go out of control, Vandesdelca had every intention of ending the world as everyone knew it, and replacing it with one filled of replications where they were free of 'the Score'. Finally at the Absorbtion Gate, what was thought to be the final 'face off' began. Under-estimating the replica and his friends, Van was defeated by Luke and abandoned by Asch, who had become a God General.

Van fell into the core of the planet, thought to never be heard of again. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Lorelei infiltrated both Luke and Asch's minds, warning them that the one who saught power was sealing Lorelei away; Van. He was not defeated like they had previously hoped, and he was still moving forward with his plan.

Van appeared in Rivelata while waiting on Eldrant prior to the final battle.

PERSONALITY

Vandesdelca is pretty full of himself. He cares for his sister initially, trying to get her out of his way so she would not be hurt, but in the end he casts her aside as well to see his plan through. He's very narrow minded when it comes to getting his dreams realized, and his sanity isn't exactly in tact. Lacking almost all sense of morals, or what's 'right and wrong', he is a liar, kidnapper, and despite his thoughts of creating the 'perfect' world without a Score, it doesn't come without mass genocide; he's not that great of ap erson..

He isn't easily swayed once he has made up his mind. Actually, he can't be swayed at all. Reasoning doesn't work, and neither do threats. Van responds to practically nothing if it tried to deter him from his original plans.

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